Monday, September 1, 2014

All Ukrainians must
be Paul Reveres

Not all Ukrainians everywhere have the righteous opportunity
to enlist in any Ukrainian military detachment and fight in Ukraine’s war of
independence against Russia. But all Ukrainians everywhere have the opportunity
and responsibility to become Paul Reveres.

Whether at midnight or midday, we must sound the clarion
that the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming.

For eight months since Viktor Yanukoyvch was ousted from the
presidency of Ukraine, Russia has been fulfilling its manifest destiny by first
invading and annexing Crimea, and then sending its mercenary terrorists to main
and kill Ukrainian civilians and soldiers in eastern Ukraine. Putin, like
Hitler, warned he would do so in the summer of 2013. Today, just as then, no
one listened or believed the threat.

At the same time global leaders and institutions, like
stunned deer caught staring into headlights in a dark forest, have treaded
gingerly around Moscow’s flagrant belligerence against Ukraine not even daring
to elevate the stakes by using words such as war and invasion.

Ukrainians around the world must use all forms of
communication to announce that what is happening in eastern Ukraine today is
Russia’s inevitable war of aggression against Ukraine. Indeed, over time it
will expand to the other former captive nations unless Putin is stopped.

Leaders of the free world must realize that Russia’s war
against Ukraine is the beginning of the war for the future of civilization. Talk,
pleas, threats and sanctions haven’t stopped the war. Our way of life is at
stake and success rests in the willingness of the US, Canada, UK, NATO,
Australia and others to resolutely stop Putin’s advancing armies.

Ukrainians and the other x-captive nations must bring this
message to their congresses and parliaments and seats of government. The world
rallied around the call to stop Hitler in 1939, and now it must rally around
the call to stop Putin in 2014 before it is too late.